See aslant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"(archaic, literary) At a slant."
],
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"word": "aslope"
},
{
"word": "atilt"
},
{
"word": "diagonally"
},
{
"word": "obliquely"
}
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "at a slant",
"word": "kallellaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "at a slant",
"word": "vinossa"
},
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"sense": "at a slant",
"word": "na bakier"
},
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"sense": "at a slant",
"word": "krzywo"
},
{
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"sense": "at a slant",
"word": "na ukos"
},
{
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"sense": "at a slant",
"word": "na skos"
},
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "at a slant",
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},
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "at a slant",
"word": "ukośnie"
},
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"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "at a slant",
"word": "aswaip"
}
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}
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"text": "There is a willow grows aslant a brook,\nThat shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.",
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"ref": "1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Zapolya, London: Rest Fenner, published 1817, Scene 1, p. 45:",
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"Diagonally over or across."
],
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"diagonally"
],
[
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"over"
],
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"across",
"across"
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"(archaic, literary) Diagonally over or across."
],
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{
"word": "athwart"
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{
"word": "atilt"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "diagonally over or across",
"word": "poikittain"
}
],
"word": "aslant"
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